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Then in Trump and the other leaders on key
issues such as Iran and climate change

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analysts tell V.O.A.

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G 7 leaders are bracing for an American
president known for his sometimes combative

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stance against allies here's
Caroline Post's L.V.A.

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a Research professor at the Paris based
Institute science's poll I have been

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following the G. 8 Summit
sometimes and this is.

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Actually. At last year's G 7 in Quebec
President Trump threatened to halt trade

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relations with several member nations and
called his host Canadian prime minister

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Justin Trudeau weak Brazil's ultra right
President j are both so Nardo is accusing

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his French counterpart of encroaching
on his country's sovereignty this after

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President said the Amazon wildfires
should be at the top of the G.

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7 summit agenda both Sonando responded his
government is open to dialogue but the

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French president suggestion that Amazonian
issues be discussed without the

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participation of the countries
of the region evokes

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a misplaced colonialist
mindset Dr Doug Morton

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a NASA scientist explains how
deforestation has played

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a role this is really the 2nd part of the
story that began with our observations of

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an increase in the forestation that
deforestation only proceeds to someone being

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able to use those areas for agriculture if
those areas are burned thousands of wild

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vine or fires burning in the Amazon rain
forest threatening to wipe out large parts

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of the ecosystem I'm less Pelka V.O.A.

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News.

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This is Africa news tonight on The Voice
of America. Good evening and welcome

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welcome to Africa news tonight from the
English to Africa Service of the Voice of

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America your source for Pan Africa nose
and world developments. In Washington

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coming up on Africa news tonight if we
don't act now in that event tomorrow we

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cannot help just the children to have access
to education which is the fundamental

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human rights that UNICEF goodwill
ambassador on how closure of schools due to

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attacks and threats are affecting children
in Central and West Africa details

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coming up also another journalist has been
arrested in Tanzania in what government

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critics are calling

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a crackdown on media and cases
separate in Nigeria on the increase at

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a very alarming rate what have these stories
and more ahead on Africa news tonight

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. Our top story the UN children

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spawned reports conflict is robbing nearly
2000000 children across 8 countries in

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West and Central Africa of an
education and a viable future

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a new UNICEF report warns this will have
negative consequences for countries that

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need an educated workforce to rebuild their
shattered economies Lisa reports from

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the launch of the report in Guinea via
the UN children's agency reports schools

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across West and Central Africa are being
deliberately targeted by insurgent groups

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he says an upsurge in attacks and threats
of violence have forced more than

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$9000.00 schools in the region to close
since the end of 2017 UNICEF goodwill

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ambassador. And. Who has just returned
from her visit to Mali describes the

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suffering of the children she met as
living in fear of their lives and their

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futures many schools have been at that and
which it is not that many to let it out

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of his school which effects the future of
those canted and if we don't act now and

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if that event tomorrow we cannot help the
children to have access to education

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which is that sentiment that human rights.
Cashen it about her mission she is

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a Syrian refugee who was forced to flee
her war torn country going 2013 she spent

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several years in

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a refugee camp Michael McCann was not
easy but she says she was able to get an

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education she says this
gave her hope and had

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a positive impact on her life she
says she wants other children in dire

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circumstances travelling the same opportunities
she has had she tells the way that

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children who have no education. To abuse
manipulation and exploitation sometimes

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they are exploited step Chile are. At such

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a young age maybe they will be also in their
board and them most didn't get us the

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wind they can go for recruitment by the
US to get out of the global So those that

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has to exploit them can use
them as child is still

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a just and this can tell
you that if you have

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a bad life UNICEF is working with
authorities and communities to support

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alternative learning opportunities these
include Community Learning Centers regular

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school programs and break based learning
initiatives the agency has appealed for

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$221000000.02 pay for educational psychosocial
supporting care for school children

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and other essential programs in the region
it has received less than 30 percent of

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God amount yelling to donors to answer
its call for support and provide. And

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millions of African children with an
education and a future. For you know

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a new. Another journalist has been

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arrested in Tanzania in what
government critics are calling

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a crackdown on media the arrest of goes
up can be came Thursday after he reported

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that police allegedly tortured detainees
in the central even got region he reports

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for what detained the television according
to the Zinni and human rights defenders

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coalition which owns the on line channel
the group says Gandhi is accused of

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publishing false information another
Tanzanian journalist Eric data was detained

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less than

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a month ago and has been charged with
organized crime and financial offenses

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Reporters Without Borders has
called President John Mica fully

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a press freedom predator and dropped to
Tanzania $25.00 places on its annual

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press freedom index this year my got 40 has
shut down newspapers banned upas ition

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rallies switched off live broadcasts off
parliamentary sessions and use the cyber

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crimes law to jail critics.

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As terror groups in south are known
and Central Africa committed

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a deadly attacks and pledged allegiance to
the Islamic state experts are trying to

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determine how big a threat they pose to
the region and the wider world V.O.A.

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Salim Salamone has the story.
Experts are warning that

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a focus on elected Islamist militant
ties is hindering efforts to respond to

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insurgencies and was on Bank and the
Democratic Republic of Congo on April 18th

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a strike on an Army base near the Congo's
border with Uganda left several Congolese

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soldiers dead and others injured it was
the 1st attack credited to well la its

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central Africa previously known
as the Allied democratic forces

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a group that has pledged
allegiance to I.A.S.

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a Month later and I ascribed to Chris
possibility for attacks in northern

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Mozambique part of

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a growing insurgency in the country led
by several groups including. Gemma and al

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Shabaab there's a lot of

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a passing around this we don't know exactly
who these guys are but they clearly

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have an Islamist bent but they're also
in bed with some of the organized crime

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networks up there that's how they get some
of the revenues and they may even have

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some networks across the borders borders
very porous in that part of Mozambique

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That's Joshua Mr V.V.

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a Senior policy analyst at the Heritage
Foundation he says the group shares its

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name but there is no known connection
with this so Mali terrorist organization

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al-Shabaab on July 24 I has
released a video featuring

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a man named Chef de la mun who called for
an end to division and fighting among

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Muslims in Central Africa he
also called for the creation of

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a caliphate The video features
heavily armed fighters and

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a forested area pledging
allegiance to I.A.S.

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But experts are unsure whether
links to I guess signal

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a new threat or simply reflect the group's
attempt to raise their profile Ryan

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O'Farrell and extremism researcher at Johns
Hopkins University said experts have

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found virtually no evidence that I as has
trained funded or acute it's African

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affiliates It also doesn't necessarily
say that Islamic state you know they're

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absolutely appalled or the government and
most of them haven't received training or

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weapons. Select

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a central piece pretty much all that to
tell you it's our local groups that have

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local recruitment networks and local
financial capacity epochal weapons determine

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channels through the affiliate
themselves where Islamic State is

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a plant but the real tangible connections
are quite rarely there nearly daily

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attacks in the couple Delgado region have
made the insurgency in Mozambique one of

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Africa's deadliest the
group in the D.R. C.

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Has pulled off high profile attacks killing
UN peacekeepers O'Farrell added the

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targets are primarily local that's fairly
narrowly the law for some of the more

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powerful us on State affiliates but within
those zones so with and I need her for

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enough to do and with and cut out or in
northern Mozambique they're very active use

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of an associate professor and Mobutu
Mozambique said rather than receiving arms or

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provisions from I.A.S.

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And Sergeant groups in Mozambique are
capturing them from them was Ambika an armed

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forces particularly the very very particular
to believe person here in person there

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that they've gotten the nomination and so
on and it seems that they themselves who

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did operations probably aren't they correct
then Sergeant scene was on because hard

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to understand because they have not
made any public pronouncements they're

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decentralized and likely include former
street hawkers with links to organized

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crime Jed every month director of the
Africa Program at the Center for Strategic

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and International Studies said the insurgency
in Mozambique may have Islamist roots

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but other factors fuel it this is what I
would call an incepted insurgency that's

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important because it means that there are
opportunities here in the embryonic stage

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to address its concern stuff it out and
bring back some of these individuals par

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society oil and gas companies hiring locals
who might otherwise become frustrated

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and join the insurgency would help

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a lot different man said Adam believes
the insurgency cannot be addressed by

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looking at it internationally and stead he
urged policy. The makers to look at the

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local grievances of northern was and bake
which has long been cut off from the

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economic hubs of the country and under
served by the Central Government Well human

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rights and in fact what we need and
what. Readily see what part of the

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problem what. Political economy
are not the most solemn Solomon

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theory News Washington.

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15 past the hour you're listening to African
news tonight on The Voice of America

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at least 130 Nigerian refugees who fled
the book insurgency in Cameroon have

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been flown to your lot in Nigeria as

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a dam our state they expressed hope they
will find peace after several years of

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atrocities that made them escape
Nigeria it's the 1st phase of

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a voluntary repatriation exercise organized
by Cameroon Nigeria and the United

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Nations marquee Edwin Canseco watched as
they left and has this report for V.O.A.

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. Often like children and force flying
around the rooms that matter was somewhat

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international. As

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a 123 different genes from 25 families
head to the town of ULA among them is

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31 year old Lim Cardia who says he
is anxious to return after 4 years

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in Cameroon with

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a time got to come out of that help
to keep us in their country and then

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today in our country town come on
and his. Last book idea is one of

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810000 children and home to United Nations
say's flecked to come roun from Boko

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Haram related to violence in Nigeria he
left governs when I would have come at his

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home to nearly 90000 people at least
30000 additional refugees have been

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living in villages surrounding become the
United Nations refugee agency you see

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has not said how many have voluntarily
agreed to return. Omar Faruk

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Nigeria has been the stuff humanitarian
affairs disaster management and Social

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Development says the refugees are leaving
falling in March 2017 tripartite

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agreement for day voluntary the patrician
of Nigerian to Fiji's living in Cameroon

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Cameroon Nigeria and you are
signed the deal Faruk saying they

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have made necessary arrangements for their
socio economic in session in 2 Nigeria

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we're going to put down I know Reception
Center for. Mike some of us something this

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after we will be taken back to Dad
respective communities and we are going to

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support same way with schools camp I meant
so I did kind of people are going to

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have feet they can be economically
self-reliant Gee I went back every governor of

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Cameron's finance region the chair said
but I was like yeah since many of the

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refugees want to return but are reluctant
because and lifting them with the animals

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they have been keeping in Cameroon
is difficult many refuse. Cowards.

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To go back by and that's why some of
the I still think it is necessary to

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see well. We've all got that here
with me gee I went back and he

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said Cayman Islands governments will let
them go with their livestock by rude when

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the as sure of their security last week
Cameron and authorities warned that. May

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be planning rates that could affect school
children and their teachers when the

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economic begins and September 3 of issues
of began giving huge consignments of food

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money and equipment to militias on the
northern border with Nigeria defending areas

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from which the military has withdrawn.
The United Nations reports that's the 10

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year book quote I'm found and such displeased
over 2700000 people including some

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210000 like you know to Fiji's into
neighboring countries the insurgent group

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promotes an extreme form of Islamist
fundamentalism on opposes Western style

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education. And doing. For V Any minor

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one common rule. Liberian
President Gore do we

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I want to reduce term limits for president
said representatives and senators Moses

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Gardasil reports from Monrovia. President
George Weah assembled Dawsons of

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legislators over the weekend urged
them to yes let off the. Acts for

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a constitutional change to reduce the term
of the president from 6 years to 5 years

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he also one vet be sensitive to say 5 years
instead of cigs and sent us to sit for

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7 years instead of 9 deaths at
the presidential press sector

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a sniff to be says the president intends
is to push Wolfie shows to begin serving

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the people from the dead some of these
to be says awful Fischer's duties

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and only begin actually working at the
close of the terms which he says hampered

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development for example or senator to have
with for the last 2 years of his 9 years

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to stop attack development twice county
that is not fair in terms of representation

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some lawmakers tend to be complacent
they've got 6 years they can start

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a work in Maine in the last 3 years of their
administration that is also not being

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fair to the trees the president sometimes
6 years and they start to wake maybe in

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the last 2 years if you if you start the
way to me that upon your election as of

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the one I got 5 years you got it from Tom
told top played around and attended Tower

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One was that his pass to give extra
breading and attention to those who will be

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elected to this position or start to
wake immediately upon the election some

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legislators who act and at the meeting
praised the president for coming out to

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explain his intent on some of the legislations
who want them to pass representative

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rich things is the perfect way to
understand the laws the eye to deliberate.

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I was in this camp says the
president will have this kind of

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a very rigorous outreach into after we
revise our to the WITH OUR And I think he

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looks in our direction see
how best to work to get

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a phone call. People are pretty going
represented to Francis De Paul for county

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things the best way to solve some of
Liberia's major issue is to rewrite the

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constitution some people will vote for the
proposition. From the opposition is one

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of. The people you much about
the best thing to do is

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to rewrite the Constitution but is facing
with the count to set rewriting the

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constitution would take time and resources
rewriting the constitution is very much

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Jenny this important by giving the
time interval you cannot rewrite your

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constitution for just 6
more you talk about it's

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a process it's not even so I think but
the proposition and making sure the

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law is relax and flexible the next
step will be review rewrite an entire

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Constitution this is not the 1st
time the idea of terms has come up

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a constitutional review committee on

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a form of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Miss similar recommendation after doing

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initial work constitution but their
recommendations were nowhere we are also used

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to get

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a ring. Of Fire proposed most of which concerns
constitutional amendments for instance

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asking for

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a change to allow Liberians to hold
dual citizenship. The news Monrovia

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. Cases of rape in Nigeria are on the

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increase at

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a very alarming rate among women young
girls and even infants according to

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a report by UNICEF and $2151.00
in 4 girls and one in 10 boys in

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Nigeria had experienced sexual violence
before the age of 18 the majority of the

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cases went on reported in the past probably
because of the stigma. He associates

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with the act but in the last couple of
years victims of sexual violence have been

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stepping forward to narrate their ordeals
reported gift agree gov visited the

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Salama sexual assault referral
center in. Our one General Hospital

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in could do that state to look at
the disturbing trend. 3 survivors

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who preferred to remain
anonymous told V.O.A.

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About their experiences the spoke in the
house a language and page in English

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a 3 year old girl who was on the day care
of her grandmother was allegedly raped

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twice by

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a 44 year old neighbor Oh the grandmother
and then waited what happened. To

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Manning in 90 4 o'clock in the says she
was reluctant to report it to the police

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because she believed she would not get
justice and being appalled wheedle no one

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would believe how it was

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a 2nd it's hats that she ran to the cinema
center and received help now that my

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neck Italy Spain again after. The 2nd
survivor in her late thirty's says.

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She was kidnapped in the home while sleeping
with her husband and child she says

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how doctors met her walk through the night
in thick forests later the 3 of them

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took turns raping her every morning and
evening and to ransom was paid and the

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freed hard.

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A 10 year old girl who is the 3rd
survivor was reportedly raped by

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a 29 year old man who lives in a
neighborhood that she says she was lured to

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a kind of by the traitor in the prisons
that he wanted hard to run an errand the

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man stalked her he jumped in her mouth and
raped her outside the compound to see to

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it fool Juliana Joseph is the manager
of the Salaam a sexual assault of

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a real center she says 90 percent of the
victims have been sexually abused by

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people who the know perhaps grandparents
in their biological Grants Pass with us

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who have been. Taught us to fight own
cause. We've been in nieces and nephews

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we have trust talk neighbors we have plain
County and in trust your children in the

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care of the neighborhood and that it
can be about to see a different story

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a good number of the perpetrators of re
move about freely due to poor investigation

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barristers enough Aminah Garba chairperson
of the International Federation of Women

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Lawyers Fida in Kaduna says Raef has become
an epidemic in the northwest where it

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is not just even then we know that it's
only going to be happening to only do maybe

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it's happening to men too and they both
been defiant so like it has been quoted to

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us it is very worrisome it is
only condoning and creating

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a government to see that such oh
do something very very fast Yacoob

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a sample the Police Public
Relations Officer in court in

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a State Command said so many rape cases
involving children go on the investigated

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because parents want to protect their
children from stigmatization some find it is

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killing their business by sticking to that
belief system that will expose our child

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to the public that the Red Cross says
she may not get to my aunt because of

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steep ice storm so this kind of passage of
the leak down in this beautiful funny Mr

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sea creatures when

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a child is involved in cases of sub advised
parents to be watchful Indian never

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hoot and be mindful of who they leave their
children with the lying Jaron Criminal

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Code recommends life imprisonment for rape
convicts and 14 years imprisonment for

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a tented rape for V.O.A.

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This is gifts I get from

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a Buddha Nigeria. And that wraps up this
edition of Africa notes to night time

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Happy Friday and well good.

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Sunny side of sports in medal results
Friday at the African Games in Morocco

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riders from Namibia and Marisha US won gold
medals in the men's and women's cycling

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mountain bike cross-country marathon
events no mid be as Tristen De Long

00:27:26
one is 2nd gold medal at 2019 covering
the 60 kilometer course in one hour

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53 minutes and 11 seconds Tristen also
want to gold medal Wednesday in the

00:27:40
30 kilometer cross country
event Mary let court that been

00:27:45
a lot of Marine One the other cycling
mountain bike gold medal on Friday she

00:27:51
pedaled the 60 kilometer course in
2 hours 28 minutes and 43 seconds

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in African Games swimming there were 10
finals on Thursday evening South African

00:28:04
swimmers won 5 gold medals Egyptian swimmers
won 4 gold medals and the other gold

00:28:11
medal in the men's 400 meters individual
medley went to the Algerian Rahm's

00:28:17
a church are who touched the wall
in 4 minutes and 23.53 seconds and

00:28:23
let's give us Sunny Side a sport salute to

00:28:27
a Gyptian swimmer for Rita Osmani she set

00:28:32
a new African record in the
women's 50 metres butterfly with

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a time of 25.94 seconds the

00:28:41
a gyp shins dominated the medal table
at the 2015 African Games and Congo

00:28:47
Brazzaville and they're showing
strong signs of doing the same in

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Morocco with medals still to be

00:28:56
a war. Did on Friday the Egyptians
have 50 medals total 14 gold 20

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silver and 16 bronze SOUTH AFRICA
is next with $27.00 medals 12

00:29:10
gold 9 silver and 6 bronze and
Algeria is 3rd with 30 medals

00:29:17
10 gold 8 silver and 12 bronze and
while the Algerians have more

00:29:24
total medals than the South
Africans keep in mind V.O.A.

00:29:29
Sports fans the South Africans are ahead
of them on the medal table because they

00:29:34
have more gold which carry more weight
in African Games athletics the track and

00:29:41
field action begins
Monday at the Prince mall

00:29:44
a opp the LA stadium and robot Sunday
Adelaide A is the technical director of the

00:29:50
Athletics Federation of Nigeria in an
interview with Iron Mike in Banja Sunday said

00:29:57
Nigerian athletes are healthy and excited
about winning medals in Morocco.

00:30:24
How many fish out did the track
and field team travel to. Have

00:30:31
a total shift to Utley 6. Is
there any special area in the

00:30:38
track and field event that you think the
Magyar will get more medals resent the

00:30:44
special tools. Or take it every
year very special because.

00:30:51
There's where you go.
I'm telling you think

00:30:58
I'm going to be free to mess some preparedness
of the eyelids Well so far so good.

00:31:05
A 0 level of injury that this
is the. Feat upgrade for the.

00:31:16
Injury so far. Which country are

00:31:23
you as big as serious opposition
from. One console game

00:31:30
like this you try to stay focused on then.
Your own team that's all just you know

00:31:35
that Nigeria is also

00:31:38
a serious contender our group consists
of this level of evil Well we have this.

00:31:43
Very well looking toward. Leave all sound
to other countries we leave it to them to

00:31:50
console no worry about us why is the
forecast for the US WM even some I think

00:31:56
qualify as what it will need to be good
for. US So one of the littles also taking

00:32:03
it US chance to get stung. So.

00:32:11
Let. It Go and get mind that OK we're.

00:32:18
Not just. All the files for the. World not

00:32:25
qualify for the World Championship on
2020 Olympics that Sunday Adelaide the

00:32:31
technical director of the Athletics
Federation of Nigeria and Sunday spoke with

00:32:37
Iron Mike on the telephone from robot
Morocco Hi My name is sun they

00:32:44
lead to technical director.
Nigeria. Let's accept the

00:32:50
subject of magic I want to say

00:32:53
a special shout out so just very sad
all sports. Thank you very much.

00:33:27
Sonny Young in Washington and you're
listening to his side of sports on the

00:33:34
Voice of America Sunday at the lady I
mentioned how some of the Nigerian athletes

00:33:40
at the African Games in Morocco will try
to qualify for the 2020 Olympics and Tokyo

00:33:47
Well 23 year old Gabriella Stafford
is hoping to represent Canada

00:33:54
at her 2nd Olympics next year
in Japan Gabrielle made her

00:33:59
a limp big debut at the 2016 Olympics in
Brazil where she competed in the women's

00:34:06
1500 meters event the energetic Indy Edwards
caught up with the Canadian athlete at

00:34:12
the recent bowler Grand Prix mate in
Birmingham England Here's Andy Gabrielle that

00:34:18
you've been having

00:34:19
a great season Canadian record 1500
combined 2nd today in Birmingham

00:34:26
but of course there's interesting that
you're an Anglo Canadian combination and now

00:34:32
you're being coached by Andy
Young who guides the career of

00:34:35
a certain. Feeling because as I understand
it you know you're based in Glasgow so

00:34:41
how's that working out really well
and I'm so grateful for. That and.

00:34:51
The world is such a
blessing in there once in

00:34:53
a lifetime opportunity and. Knowledge of
course but it's mostly been going very

00:35:00
well and my husband is also British and
so we've been able to make that move

00:35:04
together and so to have somebody like a
partner doing this move with me makes it

00:35:08
a really exciting and

00:35:09
a very smooth transition so how did it come
about I mean was it Kismet fate at all

00:35:15
did you get Andy Young approach you you
approach on the young or was more of the

00:35:18
into major Yeah so we knew. Our connection
was we're part of the same sports agency

00:35:25
. Here I was introduced to
Andy through my agent Danilo

00:35:31
AHMED So yeah that's how that's how we met
so we at the it is the training you do

00:35:37
with them now markedly different to
what you used to do. There are some big

00:35:42
differences I come from

00:35:43
a background of kind of lower volume higher
intensity and quality my coach my old

00:35:49
coach Terry. That was his
approach so it wasn't like

00:35:53
a drastically different
in terms of coming from

00:35:55
a really high volume lots of tempos
and Threshold stuff to program with

00:36:00
a lot more intensity or vice versa so that
was good in terms of similarity but yeah

00:36:04
there are some big differences of course
just the just the intensity of the work I

00:36:09
think going from collegiate to of our
approach program and then obviously just

00:36:14
trying to keep up with one of the best
athletes in the world right now you know

00:36:16
it's going to be a lot faster so
yeah I mean obviously you're in

00:36:21
a starvation to national team I mean
norm you know is it is fair to say no

00:36:27
slouch but do you have to be
careful of the training in

00:36:32
a way there's that element of competition
in training but not to do your best

00:36:36
phrasing and trying to stay with yeah
yeah I think that if you think you

00:36:43
can surprise yourself by how hard you can
push in training so long as you're doing

00:36:46
the appropriate things to
recover from it like sleeping

00:36:49
a lot eating well you know the top stuff
so I think just trying to keep up with

00:36:55
Flora as much as I can you know. Workouts
where I can't keep up with her that's

00:36:59
fine it's just about showing up every day
and giving it 100 percent give me your

00:37:04
best so presumably Of course this is World
Champ. Olympics Tokyo next year I mean

00:37:10
this is

00:37:12
a partnership you're the you'll expected to
continue for quite some time yes definitely

00:37:19
Well you know Brianna well done 2nd place
in Birmingham but also in this. Was

00:37:24
surgeon soon aiming for you in the Anglo
Canadian combination thank you thank you

00:37:28
very much for your interview that's Canadian
athlete Gabriela de Boone's Stafford

00:37:33
and she was talking with the energetic
Gandee Edwards at the recent Moeller Grand

00:37:38
Prix mate and Birmingham England and this
fun fact about Gabriella her father James

00:37:45
was also

00:37:45
a runner and he competed for Canada at 4
World Cross-Country Championships I'm

00:37:52
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you're listening to some of the side of

00:40:18
sports on the Voice of America in
African football news Liberia has

00:40:25
appointed Peter Butler as the new head
coach of the national team nicknamed the

00:40:30
Lone Star the 52 year old British coach
previously was in charge of Botswana

00:40:36
between $24.00 team and 2017 in an interview
with Moses Garcia will coach Butler

00:40:43
talked about what he hopes to accomplish
with Liberia. Right there like Farah watch

00:40:48
in Africa so you know if he is. A
286 in the face for one cancer of

00:40:53
a long moment to roll the average it
down is down to 23 so. I think the most

00:40:57
important thing from my point of view
is to identify recruit a young squad or

00:41:02
a new young school bring in some experienced
players who can actually support those

00:41:07
players I mean and get from results to make
progress down the road I'm an obviously

00:41:12
very positive if I'm looking forward to the
challenge there I really at least they

00:41:15
have amended 40 M.

00:41:17
Probably $1000000000.00 to qualified in
the issue to Qatar for the crew to be in

00:41:23
the issues are you up to the level I think
the most important thing is what he is

00:41:28
challenge you can achieve a lot and you
can learn a lot and here you can learn

00:41:32
a lot when he goes you know for you know
good enough and I think the most important

00:41:35
thing is that if we all work together we'll
go somewhere down the road to watch him

00:41:38
achieve in our our hopes and dreams and I
think you have to be realistic it won't

00:41:43
be easy it's going to be. Showing

00:41:45
a year's contract some emotional such after
6 months I do the opportunities to go

00:41:50
elsewhere I can assure you this
is not a money move far from

00:41:53
a mission is about taking on a challenge
where they appeal to my back in

00:41:58
a national team football and working with
some very very talented young players how

00:42:03
do we close to making

00:42:04
a decision did you have something that
influenced you most in terms of coming to

00:42:08
Liberia and not really know.
Heard a lot about read

00:42:12
a lot about Liberia you know obviously for
the right reasons the wrong reasons and

00:42:16
I think the most important
thing is never judge

00:42:18
a book by its cover it's you know come and
see the place and meet the people 1st I

00:42:22
found the people so far fantastic very
friendly and very hospitable and like I said

00:42:28
I'm I'm not here on holiday I'm not here
for the money I made it so actually help

00:42:33
develop and you'd say and get some results
moving forward in the future George Weah

00:42:38
house for me Florrie's on your decision
these birds don't like the area. Is

00:42:43
excellent George mayor was a wonderful
football nothing key you know it's

00:42:49
a common to work in an environment where
he's the prime He's the president of the

00:42:53
country here is it is an honor in itself
an. Hopefully I'll meet him somewhere down

00:42:59
the road and we can sell football we have
to represent libraries as it is an honor

00:43:05
and I'm very I'm very thankful to give him
the opportunity to complaints I hoping

00:43:09
to work with the Liberia not sure I know
the challenge for both saying they want to

00:43:14
play football they want to play

00:43:15
a possession very football but I
need to have an African slant on

00:43:18
a case or I mean possession and
going nowhere you need to play with

00:43:21
a time for you need to get
bodies forward and then you need

00:43:25
a change in that same unnatural we're
looking to bring in players with

00:43:28
a youthful energy and more
importantly you know with

00:43:33
a steely resolve about the group I do
believe is the talent there it just needs

00:43:38
nurture in and hopefully you know we
love the time to actually put together

00:43:42
a squad which you can actually challenge
and realize those results that's Peter

00:43:47
Butler the new head coach of Liberia's
national football team the Lone Star and

00:43:53
coach Butler spoke with Moses Garcia when
Liberia's capital Monrovia Joining us now

00:43:59
with more football news from Africa is
Sampson Oh my sporty greeting Sam 40

00:44:05
Greetings to you. Will this
weekend launch the 1st Women's

00:44:12
National Football League in South Africa
but there is no clarity on prize money for

00:44:17
the champions and monthly grants but huge
to Rick Women's National League with 12

00:44:22
teams across the country compete
in a round robin system stuff

00:44:26
a president Danny Jordaan none of the
matches will be televised for now but said

00:44:31
the association is engaging

00:44:32
a number of broadcasters we have to
strengthen the clubs and the clubs are

00:44:38
basically clubs from grassroots
football amateur clubs and

00:44:42
a whole range of measures must be taken
to strengthen those clubs to be able to

00:44:46
compete at the national level. Vice President
Ria lead while all the 12 teams will

00:44:53
be financially throughout the season
we've always felt this. Establishing

00:44:59
this league and when it is established
wait around to make sure that they

00:45:06
this is sustainable and
Kenya where for booking

00:45:10
a federal president mic Manuel where has
defended the latest decision to appoint to

00:45:15
France's Kamandi as the head coach of the
national team. F T F Preston to maintain

00:45:22
it was the right time to bring in

00:45:23
a new coach for the national team
following the past to meet me we have. To

00:45:30
discuss with him and with his discipline
snow continues to to drive this team

00:45:35
forward of this experience and deal with
the national team we support the newly

00:45:40
appointed coach Francis Kamandi says you
will be speaking to build on the front

00:45:45
left by departed Frenchman to
Mignini sometimes to satisfy

00:45:51
a lot on the beautiful game but who would
try most of the day you know in selection

00:45:57
. Day in the players who trail

00:46:01
a level best but I can tell
you it will never be only

00:46:05
a rather sad note form of Ghana international
general Google has passed away at the

00:46:10
age of 40 the form of Nottingham Forest
player has been blocked. 2015 after he

00:46:16
retired from football he had won 26 caps
for Ghana and was the country's draw other

00:46:22
2008 Afghan Cup of Nations Here's how some
fans reacted to the news of the death of

00:46:28
the Ghanian former football star and he was
one of the players who was very strong

00:46:33
he is the only plasters player I have
a crush on it was a fantastic player

00:46:38
a crazy about him I let
him did his nephew I had

00:46:42
a crush on him very strong and can take
on the defenders any time he came to the

00:46:46
pitch they go where all excited I am
in my leg in the Puja Nigeria Thanks

00:46:53
Samson Junior A Go Go see all this play.
Soon the hearts of Ghana football fans

00:46:59
with his performance at the 2008 Africa
Cup of Nations tournaments which gunna

00:47:05
hosted juniors scored 3 goals including

00:47:08
a late winner in the quarter
finals that lifted gun to

00:47:12
a 21 victory over Nigeria former Black Stars
midfielder Laryea Kingston says and I

00:47:19
quote I think that was the goal that
sealed his popularity in Ghana during the

00:47:25
tournaments we could feel Junior's influence
in the team grow and his popularity go

00:47:32
up but that goal sealed
everything Meanwhile Junior

00:47:37
a go goes former English clubs pay
tribute on social media 1st Nottingham

00:47:43
Forest rest in peace junior Nottingham
Forest football club is saddened to learn

00:47:50
that former striker Junior A Go Go has
passed away the thoughts of everyone at the

00:47:56
club are with juniors family and friends
at this sad time Bristol Rovers Football

00:48:03
Club had this to say rest in peace
Jr of go go again asked legend

00:48:09
scoring 41 goals in 126
appearances our thoughts are

00:48:16
with his family and friends at this time
Sheffield Wednesday and Barnett F.C.

00:48:22
Also expressed condolences over the
death of Junior go go now let's go to

00:48:29
Mongolia which traditionally celebrates
archery wrestling and horse racing during

00:48:36
its not dom festival the horse racing is
proving controversial as we hear now from

00:48:43
my V.O.A.

00:48:44
Colleague Jim Stevenson. Mongolia's
most famous horse festival is

00:48:50
a celebrated event across the country but
in the background rights groups are very

00:48:56
concerned. More than $10000.00 children
participate in nearly $400.00 races in

00:49:01
Mongolia each year an average of $600.00
child jockeys are thrown from their horse

00:49:06
and did $217169.00 were killed growing
up on the edge of the Gobi Desert in

00:49:13
a nomadic family no moon most work as

00:49:15
a jockey riding in Mongolia his
biggest horse racing event.

00:49:25
When I was 5 I started to ride horses
and I've been racing now for 4 years my

00:49:29
father trains the horses and I'm the
jockey to race them Mongolian courts have

00:49:34
banned child riders from racing in winter
and spring races in response to the high

00:49:38
numbers of deaths and injuries recorded
each year but most horse racing families

00:49:43
continue to swing child jockeys back up
into the saddle despite new regulations

00:49:49
introduced 3 years ago. And stated that
when the kids are jockeys it is good

00:49:55
for their health care exercise it is

00:49:58
a national tradition not now morning didn't
have any accidents so far but when she

00:50:02
races I always

00:50:03
a worry for her rights group truck slammed
doors trainers for putting children's

00:50:09
lives even more at risk we're tired of vents
organizers are worried the traditional

00:50:14
Nadar festival is now turning into

00:50:16
a business pushing horses that trial
jockeys to the limits segment somebody are

00:50:21
trained horses. Capturing the
recent horses since the 1970

00:50:28
S.

00:50:29
Started early with her ration are going
into extra feet to make them strong now the

00:50:33
rules aren't strict and everything is
becoming easier and about the prize money

00:50:37
with regulations poorly enforced dad
perpetrators of child fatalities rarely

00:50:41
punished the fate of improving horseracing
standards in Mongolia are slim to none

00:50:47
says she will continue racing to make her
family happy. It let's not my family is

00:50:54
so glad when I race especially my brother
when I. And my brother so glad and proud

00:50:58
of me and thanks to my V.O.A.

00:51:00
Colleague Jim Stevenson for that report
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